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Weekend Confirmed Episode 46
by Garnett Lee, Feb 04, 2011 12:00pm PSTGood friend of the show Christian Spicer joins Garnett, Jeff, and Jeff this week. They've been playing a number of games, filling Whatcha' Been Playin? with Magicka, the Witcher, a new run through Halo: Reach and Red Dead Redemption, a report from Namco's 2011 preview event, and more. Your conversations about last week's announcement of the Sony NGP get things started in the Warning, which continues through to some of our "happiness" games. And in the news, more on the post-launch features planned for the 3DS and cloud computing for PS3 and Steam headline the Front Page.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 46 - 02/04/2011
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Weekend Confirmed comes in four segments to make it easy to listen to in segments or all at once. Here's the timing for this week's episode:
Whatcha' Been Playin?: Start: 00:00:00 End: 00:30:35
Whatcha' Been Playin? and Cannata-ford: 00:31:41 End: 01:03:40
The Warning: 01:04:45 End: 01:35:10
Featured Music "I Think of Me Too" by Hello Ninja: 01:35:10 End: 01:38:32
The Front Page: Start: 01:38:32 End: 02:12:40
Tailgate-Super Bowl Edition: Start: 02:13:41 End: 02:23:33
Hello Ninja is a Boston-based rock revival band. The band features the talents of Cat Basile on vocals, Will Deeks on lead guitar, and Tim Thompson & Anthony Geehan providing the band's rhythm section. Hello Ninja will be touring the Northeast from February 5-12, making stops in Worcester, MA, Providence, RI, New London, CT, Brooklyn, New York, Albany, New York, and finishing in Somerville, MA. You can find out more info on their upcoming tour & hear their new EP on the Hello Ninja official site, MySpace, or The Hello Ninja bandcamp page.
Original music in the show by Del Rio. Get his latest single, Small Town Hero on iTunes. Check out more, including the Super Mega Worm mix and other mash-ups on his ReverbNation page or Facebook page.
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Comments
Whatever you might think about Blu-Ray now, in the first couple of years it was a burden to the PS3. Blu-Ray was a large driver to the cost of the PS3, which is a major reason it didn't sell early on. Also, it wasn't clear until a couple of years in that Blu-Ray was going to be the standard format for delivering high def content.
Sony's track record on future technology is mixed. Yes Blu-Ray eventually won but Betamax failed as did DAT (at least as a commercial product). I also think Sony as a brand related to audio and video products is no where near as strong, at least in the US, as it once was. At one time nearly all my components and TVs were Sony branded and now I have one Sony TV left that I'm looking to replace soon with an LCD. I'm not sure where the issue lies but the rootkit on CDs were around the time when things started to change for me.
As for this episodes discussion on whether Blu-Ray helps now, I don't think it helps a lot. We gamers tend to talk about things like Netflix streaming, Amazon VOD, etc and those services are growing, which obviously doesn't help Blu-Ray. But I think the bigger hindrances for Blu-Ray are On-Demand/Pay-Per-View services through cable/satellite and Red Box. These, Red Box in particular, are the things most of the non-geeks I know use.
DVD won because it's only competion was a vastly inferior (quality and size) VHS format. Blu-Ray is fighting not only digital distribution through the internet but these other services as well. I don't see it ever being as big as DVD's were. Don't get me wrong, I love Blu-Ray but a number of people have told me they really can't tell that much of a difference (and to be honest, I'm not sure I can either, I just love gadgets).
Enough from me. Another great show this week guys. Enjoy the big game.
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The ratio of people who rather have a physical copy are likely greater than those who want only a digital copy. Personally, I opt for a physical copy. Of all the methods you mentioned, Redbox is probably one of the better ones. Any movie is $1 per night (1.50 for Blu-Ray). That's it. While each of the other methods charge 2X-4X more. Netflix may be theoretically cheaper but I rent at most 1 or 2 movies a month so it really does absolutely nothing for me.
Its kind of funny that you are talking of the irrelevance of "physical media" when Gamefly, Amazon, Best Buy, Target, Gamestop and other retailers have business models with the re-sale or rental of physical game media in mind.
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